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Introduction to the Special Issue: Living Epics of China and Inner Asia
Ist Teil von
The Journal of American folklore, 2016-07, Vol.129 (513), p.253-269
Ort / Verlag
Boston, Mass: University of Illinois Press
Erscheinungsjahr
2016
Link zum Volltext
Quelle
Alma/SFX Local Collection
Beschreibungen/Notizen
Who does not wish that certain days in one's life could be recalled, to be relived in a manner more in keeping with one's sense of justice and right? This was the basic premise, twisted about in antic fashion, of the 1993 film Groundhog Day-the closest thing to a Buddhist moral comedy that Columbia Pictures has produced. This film, which is still climbing the "best of such-and-such" charts, featured the slow, reluctant conversion of a cynical news anchorman, played by Bill Murray, into an instrument of cosmic order in small-town America. Play-it-again fantasies of this kind enter the author's mind when he thinks back on an incident he was once involved in, as a young man, in a town in western Afghanistan. All the same, he was amazed at the singer's torrent of words, some of which he sang out melodically while others he delivered in a rapid recitative.